"Jane's boyfriend is missing, and she thinks she may find him at North Carolina's historic Biltmore Estate. Officially, she's there to learn about luxury hotel management, but she's also prowling around the breathtaking buildings and grounds looking for secret passageways and clues. One of the staff gardeners promises to be helpful . . . that is, until his body turns up in the reading room of his cottage, a book on his lap.When she finally locates...

Recently widowed Nell Stillman deals with caring for her child in a new small town through building connections in the community and the novels she reads every evening.

When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

Lola loves to hear Daddy read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.

The monkeys, apes, and other animals appearing in a book, excited to be "saved" when someone opens the book to being reading it, they soon beg the reader not to close them in again.

Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the end of the school year, but one video-game loving boy proves to be a challenge.

Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.

After her novelist husband cheats on her, fellow writer and mother of two Sarah Price takes stock of her life and addresses all the things she put on hold for a family, including her writing, her best friend, the volumes of Proust on her shelves, and theman that tried to tempt her years ago.

Rufus Leroy Williams III wants to go to school to learn to read but the principal at first refuses because Rufus is a pig.